Button-setting implement



(No Model.)

F. I-I. RICHARDS.

BUTTON SETTING IMTLEMBNT.

N0.'397,388. Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

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nrnr trice- FRANCIS II. RIC] IARDS, OF IIARTFORD, ASSIGNOR 'lO 'llIEAMERICAN BUT- TON FASTENER COMPANY, OF NEV BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

BUT"ON=SE.TTING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,388, dated February5, 1889.

Application filed June 20, 1838- Sclial N0. 277,651- NO model.)

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Be it known that 1, FnANcIs II. Hicmxn'os, a citizen ot' the UnitedStates, residing at IIartforifl, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inButton-Setting Instruments, of which the 'lollmving isa specitication.

This invention vis in the nature of an imro provement on thelnitton-setting instrument described in United States Patent No. iilif,granted to me March Q3, lSSl.

In the drawings accompanying and forming` a part of this specification,Figure l is a I5 side elevation of a buttoi'i-sett-ing instrumentembodying my present improvements, and showing' the jaws (or members)open, with a button in place ready for setting'. Fig. is a similar andcorresponding view, partially in zo section, showing the jaws closed, asat the close of the setting operation. Fig. il is a front elevation ofthe instrument. Fig. i is a vertical longitudinal secl ion through thelower jaw and the mechanism carried thereon. 2 5 Fig. 5 is a top view olthe lower jaw with the presser-slide thereon. Fig. 6 shows thepresserslide in three views. 7 shows the driver in two views. Fig. S isa detail of the front (left-hand) end of the lower j aw, showing how 3othe same is constructed to carry the several parts assembled thereon.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures.

The two hamlles ol my improved. instrument are or may be of the usualdescription and pivoted together at X in any usual manner. I prefer,however, to use :for said pivot, and as shown herein, the plier-jointdescribed in my application, Seria-l No. 279,237, and having thepivot-bolt 52 and check-nut 53. The upper jaw, D, which is thebutton-holding' member, has formed therein the usual setting-die. (Notshown.) It is also provided with a button-holding spring, Si), after themanner described in my United States Patent No. 311,033, dated.Ianuary2(l,1885. The lbutton f3() is held by its shank between the cnd3l of said spring and the lip 32 ol' said jaw. (See Fiigf.) 5o The lowerjaw, which carries the fastenerdriver, is grooved at 2 and l, Fig. Si,to form ways l'or the guides Si and 5 of presser-slide F. Said jaw isalso slotted at l5 to receive the laterally-movable driver N, which 'ispivoted at 7 between the projections 8 thereof. 55 A recess, 0, is alsoformed in said lower member, C, for receiving the wish-spring l0, forthrowing up the presser-slide. As a means of connection with itsactuating-spring l0, said slide F has a suitable arm, as il l, formed 6othereon and projecting to a point above recess il. This arm carriesusually and preferably a depemling guide-pin, l2, standing within saidspring, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and l.

The driv'er, on the upper edge of which the fastener-head rests,consists, as shown best in Figs. 2, el, and 7, of the plate 15, havingthe arm lli, which is perforated at 17, corresponding to the pivot 7,Figs. 2 and Je. The upper 7o end, i8, of thc driveri shaped conformablyto the fastener-head ll', as will be understood from Fig. f3; Y

The presser-slide has a front plate, 20, having an opening', 2l,therein, through which t0 75 insert the fasteners.' This plate 2O isconnected by side walls, 22 23, with the guides 3 and 5, respectively.Between said front plate and guides there is a back plate, 24, andbetween said two plates 2O and 24 (which are fixed 8o relatively to eachother) there is the driverchannel 25, through which the driver N passesas it forces up the fastener, as shown in Fig.

2. The lower end of the slide F has a stoppin, 27, forlimiting theupward stroke thereof. S 5 This pin also acts or may act on thedriverarm 16 to throw forward the d1.'i\fcrpoin t 19m a feature wellillustrated in Fi JC.

The mode of operating my improved instrument is the same as that ofoperating the 9o instrument described "in my aforesaid paient, No.338,554-, and will be obvious to those skilled in this art from thedrawings and preceding deseription. The large opening 2'. through thefront plate permits the fastener lI to be readily pushed into place inthe driverchannel, the members C? D of course being open, as in. Fig. l.'llo do this, the fastenerpoint is put under the upper part, 20, of thelfront plate, and the fastener-head Il in Fig. roo

. be pushed back at the top by said fastener 3 is pushed backward andupward, as .illustrated in Fig. 4 by the dotted line and arrow 40. Thisoperation forces back the driver, as shown in Fig. at, under thc backplate, 24:. On the upward movement of the fastener the driver comesforward again and stands underneath the same ready to drive saidfastener up through channel 25 and against the setting-die. The button250 being now put in place, and the falgiric or shoe-upper M beingproperly placed over the slide F, the two jaws are now forcibly lnouglittogether. This pushes down slide F and drives the fastener-pron g upthrough the fabric and buttonshank against the setting-die, therebyclinching the prong and completing the setting operation.

I'laving thus described my invention, l claiml.. ln a lnitton-settinginstrument, the combination, with the jaw C, formed substantially asdescribed, to receive the presser-slide and the laterally1n ovabledriver, of the slide comprising two fixed members or plates with adriver-channel between them, and having an opening in the front plate ormember, through which to insert a fastener into said channel, and thelaterallymovable driver arranged to and to drive the fastener throughsaid channel, substantially as described.

2. In a button-setting instrument, the coinbination, with thefastener-driving member thereof, of the slide comprising two fixedplates or members with a driver-channel between them carried on saiddriving member, 1 and the driver pivoted at its lower end to l saidmember and laterally movable at its upper end, all substantially asdescribed.

In a button-setting instrument, the combination, with thepivotally-supported driver having the arm 1U, of the spring-actuatedslide F, having the pin. 27, substantially as described.

4. ln a button-setting instrument, the conibinatien, with thefastener-driving member ,and 5, and having the arm ll, of the spring'10, set in said recess and actuating said slide through said arm,substantially as shown and described.

(i. In a lnitton-setting instrument, the combination, with the member C,grooved to receive spring-actuated slide F and having slot e, of theslide F, constructed substantially as described and having a stop-pin,27, below said member, and the driver N, pivoted in said slot G andhaving the arm lli, substantially as described, and for the purposespeciiied.

FRANC/IS ll'. RICHARDS. llfitnesses:

WILBUR M. STONE, W. M. BYORKMAN.

